{"id":24822,"date":"2012-08-28T11:32:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T08:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=24822"},"modified":"2012-08-28T11:32:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T08:32:59","slug":"heathrow-airport-expansion-mp-tim-yeo-goads-david-cameron-uk-news-24822","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/heathrow-airport-expansion-mp-tim-yeo-goads-david-cameron-uk-news-24822\/","title":{"rendered":"Heathrow Airport Expansion: MP Tim Yeo goads David Cameron \/ UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A senior Conservative has called on David Cameron to decide if he is “a man or mouse” and agree to a third runway at Heathrow Airport.<\/h1>\n

Tim Yeo, who is a former environment minister, used to be opposed to the expansion of Heathrow but now says the environmental objections to it are disappearing.<\/p>\n

Writing in The Daily Telegraph, the chairman of the Commons energy committee claimed backing the expansion would give the Government a “sense of mission”.<\/p>\n

In the stinging attack, he questioned whether the Prime Minister would preside “over a dignified slide towards insignificance” and suggested the leader’s heart was “impenetrable” to most voters.<\/p>\n

“The Prime Minister must ask himself whether he is man or mouse,” Mr Yeo said. “Does he want to be another Harold Macmillan, presiding over a dignified slide towards insignificance?<\/p>\n

“Or is there somewhere inside his heart – an organ that still remains impenetrable to most Britons – a trace of (former PM Margaret) Thatcher, determined to reverse the direction of our ship?<\/p>\n

“An immediate go-ahead for a third runway will symbolise the start of a new era, the moment the Cameron government found its sense of mission. Let’s go for it.”<\/p>\n

It comes after housing minister Grant Shapps warned a third runway was needed to ensure the UK remained a “great trading nation”.<\/p>\n

London mayor Boris Johnson, who is against the new runway, has accused Mr Cameron of “pussyfooting around” on the issue.<\/p>\n

Mr Yeo was previously a high-profile opponent of expansion but now argues European Union carbon emissions caps will force airlines to use more environmentally friendly planes, if they want to use new capacity at Heathrow.<\/p>\n

He added: “The environmental objections are disappearing. Last January, greenhouse gas emissions from flying were brought within the EU cap.<\/p>\n

“Indeed, we could cover the whole of Surrey with runways and not increase emissions by a single kilogram: if Heathrow expands, so remaining the European destination of choice, airlines will fly their newest and quietest aircraft to it.”<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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